Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 19:32:53 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <7a283c8d-1038-4bcf-95d8-bf5e74ccf756@googlegroups.com> <41754abf-aa6e-443a-84b5-4c6431acdbad@googlegroups.com> <16a3706e-f220-4b65-87a7-51b09dc4471a@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: PBuS014lhzVyHjLbXmo/ZQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:36149 On 12/29/2016 3:37 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: > A related point is that, IIRC (and I'm sure others can correct me if my > recollection is wrong) the way to update a Tomcat-based web application > is to upload a WAR file to Tomcat. > > Again, IIRC the WAR file contains, among other things static pages, Java > Beans and, presumably, related classes, i.o.w. its not unlike a jar file. It is a jar file with some additional conventions. > The Java classes and beans in it must have been compiled somewhere and it > seems likely that 'somewhere' would not be part of the web hosting > environment containing the Tomcat Instance you'd be using to support your > experimental website. In which case you'd still need a local(?) > development system to prepare the WAR file. > > What did I miss? Nothing I think. But the development system only needs JDK plus a few jars with some API's to produce the war. You do not need an actual running servlet container. Arne